/*
 * Taken and adapted from Ben Strasser, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
 * Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Algorithmics I.
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2016 Michael Wegner and Matthias Wolf
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
 * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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 * SOFTWARE.
 */

#ifndef TIMER_H
#define TIMER_H

#include <sys/time.h>

//! Returns the number of microseconds since the epoch, i.e., since 1st Jan 1970 00:00 UTC.
inline
long long get_micro_time(){
	timeval t;
	gettimeofday(&t, 0);
	return t.tv_sec*1000000ll+t.tv_usec;
}

#endif
